Software offers collaborative health care management.
Press Release Summary:
Designed to optimize quality, safety, and affordability of health plans, Alineo(TM) addresses case, disease, and utilization management. Predictive modeling tools identify patients that can immediately benefit from case and disease management programs, while embedded clinical content delivers turnkey clinical knowledge and programs for creating patient care plans. With Alineo, users can automatically administer and evaluate individual member and population-wide care programs.
Original Press Release:
MEDecision Introduces Alineo(TM) Collaborative Health Care Management Solution
Simplified, Smart and State-of-the-Art Platform Designed to Help Health Plans Improve Quality, Safety and Affordability of Care
WAYNE, Pa. - January 22, 2008 - MEDecision, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDE), a provider of collaborative health care management solutions with 20 years of health care management experience, today introduced Alineo(TM), a collaborative health care management platform for addressing case management, disease management and utilization management. Alineo represents a re-architected solution that provides a simplified, smart and state-of-the-art model designed to help health plans improve quality, safety and affordability of care.
"Health plans are under growing pressure to better align information technology resources with business and health care requirements," said MEDecision Founder and CEO David St.Clair. "Alineo facilitates these efforts through an innovative, member-centric approach. It enables health plans to improve the quality and affordability of care by helping them optimally manage risk and compliance, increase efficiencies, enhance business agility and control costs. Alineo truly represents the next generation of care management."
A collaborative health care management platform for addressing case management, disease management and utilization management, Alineo provides a simplified and smart process for analyzing, applying and automating payer-driven best practices. Alineo features:
o A simplified user experience, including an entirely new user interface with an intuitive screen design, to improve workflow, user efficiency and overall productivity.
o Predictive modeling tools to identify patients who can immediately benefit from case and disease management programs.
o Embedded clinical content that delivers turnkey clinical knowledge and programs for creating patient care plans while helping to improve clinical consistency.
o The ability to automatically and intelligently administer and evaluate individual member and population-wide care programs, including approvals, referrals and extensions.
o An open, standards-based technology with an extensible architecture that allows for flexibility in accommodating changing organizational needs and evolving technical requirements.
"In developing Alineo, we wanted to take advantage of state-of-the-art technology advances," said St. Clair. "The new platform will allow health plans to easily integrate new and existing applications from internal organizations and external vendors, giving them the capacity to grow and change their information technology as the organizations themselves grow and change. We believe it is exactly what organizations need to function at the highest level while helping to ensure the best possible care."
Alineo includes the following components: Reporting, Correspondence, Automated Approvals, Clinical Intelligence and Clinical Summaries. The platform will integrate additional components in line with MEDecision's ongoing product development, including Clinical Criteria, Clinical Programs and Care Management Analytics in the coming months.
Alineo reached general availability in late December 2007. One major health care plan has already taken delivery of the product.
MEDecision will host a complimentary web conference unveiling Alineo on January 30, 2008. To register for the event, please visit www.MEDecision.com/webinars.asp.
For more information, please visit www.MEDecision.com.
About MEDecision
MEDecision offers collaborative health care management solutions that provide a simplified and smart way to manage the health of members and member populations which can improve the quality and affordability of care. Based on state-of-the-art technology, MEDecision's solutions include Alineo(TM), a collaborative health care management platform for managing case, disease and utilization management and Nexalign(TM), a collaborative health care information exchange service. MEDecision believes that, in the aggregate, its health care payer customers insure or manage care for approximately one in every six people in the U.S. with health insurance. For more information, please visit www.MEDecision.com.
MEDecision is a trademark of MEDecision, Inc. The MEDecision logo and product names are also trademarks or registered trademarks of MEDecision, Inc. Other product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. MEDE-G
CONTACT: Tracey Kohler Costello
MEDecision
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